Metastatic Breast Cancer
SHARE offers services specifically designed for women with metastatic breast cancer.
If you are looking for more information about metastatic breast cancer, we suggest that you start by visiting our About Metastatic Breast Cancer page. We also encourage you to call our Breast Cancer Hotline at (866) 891-2392 to speak to a woman with metastatic breast cancer. You can also join one of our support groups.
This page lists the many pages throughout the SHARE website that are related to metastatic breast cancer in some way. As new blog posts and other resources are added, they will automatically appear here. You can subscribe to updates via RSS or just bookmark this page and check in from time to time.
Recently Updated Resources
- What is Metastatic Breast Cancer?
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Metastatic breast cancer occurs when breast cancer cells travel from the breast to another part of the body such as the bones, liver, lungs, or brain. Metastatic breast cancer is also referred to as Stage IV breast cancer.
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- FDA Expands Tykerb Approval
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Good news for women with metastatic breast cancer! On January 29th the FDA approved a new drug option for HER2+ metastatic women: Tykerb in combination with Femara.
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- Coping with the Holidays
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The holidays are always a joyful and stressful time of year. Being metastatic and dealing with family and friends complicates things.
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- October: What does it mean to you?
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"Breast cancer is not pretty, pink, sexy, only for older women, the 'good' kind of cancer, fun, cured with a positive attitude, only for October." So says a T-shirt that's popular on the message board bcmets.org.
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- SHARE's Metastatic Breast Cancer Services
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SHARE brings women living with metastatic breast cancer together to support one another and to provide advice and assistance to others dealing with this disease.
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- Wrestling Alligators
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You're walking down the street, you look pretty hot (and not because the sun is out!). You look healthy even though you're just coming back from a doctor's appointment where you've been told that the last PetCT scan showed progression and that you will be changing chemos . . .
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- Metastatic Breast Cancer Resources
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Many online resources exist for women and their families living with metastatic breast cancer. They include:
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- Real "Norma Rae" has died of cancer
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Remember the movie "Norma Rae"? Sally Fields played a feisty young mill worker whose courageous fight led to the unionization of a notorious anti-union employer in North Carolina.
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